Reply #19: So shut up and do nothing...

[TAZller]

I realize that often posters use DU to vent or to garner sympathy amongst a like mind group...but I hope your discomfort that pushed you to make this post goes a bit more deap.

Of course there is something you can do... and if it is not an exageration of the environment in which this is occuring, to fear a loss of job by complaing, then you SHOULD do something.

Of course you feel like you cannot do this openly, so do it anonymously. Write an unsigned letter to the principal. Be reasoned and describe your discomfort with using school resources and mindshare to promote a religous event. Describe an environment where you feel you cannot complain openly. And ask for something specific; no moe religous announcements, or a clear policy regarding all extra-curricular announcements. If you get no action, send a similar letter to all of the teachers asking them to press the administration to address this issue. Still no action, send the letter to the school board...to the PTA...

This course of action will likely at least get some sort of response. And, if you are lucky it will find a champion that is not similarily constrained by your situation, keeping you in the shadows. Seem too extreeme, or too much work? Then you are all too happy to live in an environment where you fear loosing the security and continue being bothered by those that are exercising freedoms that should be afforded to others.